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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Lacy Crochet Blog Rules

In the light of the unpleasant incident that recently took
place I was faced with a dilemma whether I should invest my time and work into
this blog or give it up. I was showered with sincere comments and e-mails from
people who actually find my efforts valuable! I am very grateful to you for
sharing with me your experiences in similar situations, for your wisdom and advice,
and for your encouragement.

Yes, I will go on! However, I came up with a list of changes and rules that I’m
going to implement on my blog.

1. I will not let people take advantage of the hard work
that I put into my blog! I will not be afraid to publicly denounce on my blog
people who try to make profit of my work selling my patterns on Etsy, Ebay, or
other sites.

2. I will put some of my designs and patterns up for sale,
and I will not feel guilty about it.

3. I still intend to share my crochet patterns and tutorials
with my readers. However, the images will be heavily watermarked and I will
clearly state in each post my terms of use, which are:

My original designs cannot be posted on other sites or
distributed in any other form. If you would like to share my pattern or
tutorial, you can post ONE image on your site with the link to my original
post.

You can use my original patterns to make items for personal
use or for sale. If you sell finished items made following my patterns, you
must give design credit to Lacy Crochet Blog (lacycrochet.blogspot.com)

All the photos on this blog were taken by me (unless stated
otherwise) and cannot be reposted without my permission.

4. I will no longer provide support and answer questions for
my patterns older than one year. This is simply a matter of my time. I now have
over 200 posts on my blog, and I can no longer stay on track of all of them. If
you have a question or problem with a particular pattern, please read the
comments first. It’s possible that I have already addressed the question or
problem in the comments. If not, you are welcome to ask for help on crochet
forums or discussion boards, but make sure you only give a link to the pattern
and not repost it there.

5. I often get e-mails from people asking help with patterns
that were not written by me. I’m flattered that you consider me a crochet
expert, thank you. I don’t know everything about crochet, but I do love the
challenge of figuring things out. If you want to ask for help or request a
tutorial for a particular stitch, please send me an e-mail. I will try to
address your request as soon as I can. If I consider that it’s worth sharing I
will make a blog post out of it, so that other people in our craft can learn
and benefit from it.

6. Please, don’t get upset with me if I don’t reply to your
e-mail or comment or do not address your crochet problem. I greatly appreciate
them, and I will try to do my best. However, as I already said it all boils
down to a limited time on my hands.

7. If you have any suggestions or advice, I will sincerely
welcome them.

Welcome back and may I say that I have been admiring your patterns as and when they have been published. Wonderful work and I was sad to see you go. However I can see that you are determined to win this phishing thing, wishing you luck.........

No one could possibly get upset with you, you are amazing and these are all very realistic, common sense rules that we should all adhere tp on all of our blogs. So glad to see you are not giving up.Hugs to you,Meredith

Very happy to read you are back, I really wanted to comment on your last blog post and am sorry that I didn't. Your work is wonderful, and I greatly appreciate you sharing it and your patterns with all of us. I will support you in any way you decide to share with us all!

I am so glad that you are continue. I have used so many of your patterns and given away as gifts, etc. They are so pretty and easy to follow. The ladies in my family are enjoying all the pretty scarves I made them for Christmas. The people at the nursing home are enjoying the lap robes that I made them from your baby blanket patterns. Then I have used the cap patterns on your site for cancer patients who have lost their hair. I could never afford to buy all those patterns, so thank you very much for your web site.

Thank you Thank you for continuing with your blog. I have missed your emails. Your blog rules are what is needed int this day and age. I especially like rule 1! Last year I contacted a designer of a beautiful Afghan pattern (which I had purchased) and told her I had found her pattern online and being given out free. The pattern was word for word hers along with the pictures. Instead of thanking me, she chastised me and said it wasn't her pattern. I had two friends check out the patterns and do up samples from each and they were the same. I still did not get an apology from the designer. I am glad to find a designer who will stand up for her hard work! I have often wondered why you never charged for your beautiful work? I would have and will happily pay for them.

Welcome back and thank you for taking the decision to do so. Your rules are absolutely fair - so glad I don't miss out on your future creativity and stunning photography. Someone like me as a beginner crocheter needs the tutorials and yours are spot on! Thank you.

So glad that you're back and continuing to share your lovely designs and photos, I always enjoy your posts :) Your rules are perfectly reasonable and very easy to follow! It is so sad that such things need to be stated and enforced, but thank you for not allowing an unscrupulous few to ruin your work for us all ;)

Dearest Olga,Why don't you try to list your blog with Tynt to fight against Plagiarism? I have it on my blog and if you check out my URL there is a special code added behind it. IF you try to copy anything from my blog, you get the message and all the extra information added. That might scare part of those copy and paste artists off. We can never completely protect ourselves of course. But this is something; however minor.http://www.tynt.com/Check it out yourself.Hugs and have a meaningful Holy Week.Mariette

I am certainly a late comer to your site, and I am sooo glad that nasty unethical people didn't make you stop your blog or patterns. I investigated sites and blogs and shops for about a year before I jumped in the crochet/patterns for sale pool, and there is no doubt a very unseemly and dark side to this business. Your work is so special! Please do whatever you need to do to fail-safe your work. Your true fans will understand!